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Pluckemin Artillery Encampment Site added to New Jersey Historic Register

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Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment Approved to the State Register - Click to readThe Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places

Trenton - New Jersey - March 11, 2008

Being on the state Register means that the Artillery Park site, located in the middle of The Hills development, will be forever protected from any undertaking that would adversely affect the property. The actual site is owned by the Township of Bedminster.

Below is an extract of the official letter received from the Township of Bedminster on behalf of the Pluckemin site:

 

Township of Bedminster
One Miller Lane
Bedminster NJ 07921

Dear Property Owner:

" The application for the Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site was favorably received by the State Review Board for Historic Sites. Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site, Bedminster, Somerset County was entered onto the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on January 17, 2008. In accordance with N.J.S.A.13:IB-15.l31, listing of an area, site, structure or object in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places prevents the State, a county, municipality or any of their agencies or instrumentalities from undertaking any project that will encroach upon, damage or destroy the property listed without approval from the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection."

Sincerely,
Terry Karschner Acting Administrator
New Jersey Department of Enviornmental Protection

 

The state Review Board for Historic Sites, meeting in Trenton, nominated the site for listing on Oct. 30 and will be forwarding the nomination to the National Park Service for its review so that the Artillery Park can get on the National Register of Historic Places. Listing on the state register does not guarantee listing on the National Register, although it increases an application’s chances for listing.

National Park Service officials will make their decision by the end of February. The application to the state and national Registers was made on behalf of Bedminster Township, with the Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House taking an active interest. Dr. Ian Burrow of Hunter Research in Trenton, who has done extensive archeological work at the Jacobus Vanderveer House, defended the site application before the state Review Board. Before listing the Artillery Park site the state Review Board asked Dr. Burrow to make a few changes in the site application, which he did.

For additional information and details NJ Historic Preservation Office, please visit http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/ or http://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/somerset.pdf

For additional information, please visit the National Park Service at http://www.nps.gov/nr/

 

Submitted:March 30, 2008

 
 

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About the Vanderveer/Knox House & Museum
& the Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment

For over two centuries, the Jacobus Vanderveer House has been at the center of Bedminster Township’s rich and colorful history. The house is the last surviving building in Bedminster associated with the Vanderveer's, a family prominent in Bedminster Township history from its earliest settlement through the mid 19th century.

The Vanderveer house served as headquarters for General Henry Knox during the winter of 1778-79, when the Continental Army artillery was located in the village of Pluckemin during the Revolutionary War's Second Middlebrook Encampment. The house is the only known building still standing that was associated with the Pluckemin Artillery Cantonment. The artillery park and military academy is considered to be the first installation in America to train officers in engineering and artillery and predates the United States Military Academy at West Point (est.1802) by twenty four years.

The Vanderveer family house was later enlarged with two additions in the nineteenth century, remodeled in the twentieth century, and subsequently abandoned. The Township of Bedminster purchased the home and the surrounding area as part of River Road Park in 1989. The home has been restored by The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House, a non-profit group of inspired volunteers dedicated to use the home as a museum and educational center.

Vanderveer/Knox Museum and the Friend of the Jacobus Vanderveer House in Bedminster/Pluckemin New Jersey - Home to early Dutch colonial farming, The Vanderveer family, and the Pluckemin Artillery Encampment - America's First Artillery Training Facility - the precursor to the West Point Military Academy
The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House
P.O. Box 723, Bedminster, New Jersey 07921-0723
908 - 212 - 7000 ext. 611
www.jvanderveerhouse.com info@jvanderveerhouse.com
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The Friends of the Jacobus Vanderveer House received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, division of the Department of State.

 

 

 

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